Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus

Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus

Skip · Narrative · 2019

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$14.99Skip

On its price record

$13.24Fair

Length
3.8h 5h to 100%
Value
$3.94/hr
Reviews
87% of 219 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.24 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$3.95/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 194 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Take on the role of an experienced detective and get carried away by a winter adventure amid frozen lands. Find hidden motives of the antagonist and save Santa Claus from a false conviction in this seasonal Hidden Objects adventure.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 49 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. On the same math Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek ($14.99, scores 52) and Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden ($14.99, scores 57) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

The drop-off

82% start to 26% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus is a hidden object puzzle adventure where you play as Brigitte Woolf, a detective who focuses on yuletide mysteries. In this game, she has to save Santa and Christmas from the evil Krampus. This is the third Yuletide Legends game, but the only one that is currently available on Steam. To play the game, you'll solve a mixture of hidden object scenes and puzzles. The puzzles...
The Greater SphinxRecommendedafter 11hDec 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Simple gameplay, like most HOGs, but enjoyable. Nice graphics and animation. Decent voice acting. Was fun to play with my 6 year-old grandson.
RogueRecommendedafter 4.8hApr 2025Read on Steam
Is this a H.O.G. for kids? If so... Then yeah! I can see them enjoying it. If this is for adults... Way too easy. You only work with one, barely TWO rooms at a time. I didn't feel the Christmas magic. It's harmless. So I can't be annoyed by it... I just don't get who this game is for.
Miss Zi BunneyRecommendedafter 3.8hJan 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1174500/yuletide-legends-who-framed-santa-claus
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBrave Giant LTD
PublisherArtifex Mundi
GenreNarrative
Released2019
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20